Field Work
“Good job,” a parent says, giving people the thumbs up at a pop-up vaccination clinic happening at Addi Road this morning.
“Good job,” a parent says, giving people the thumbs up at a pop-up vaccination clinic happening at Addi Road this morning.
RedLink are a brilliant organisation working in collaboration with community members associated with the Redfern Towers housing estate. We’re pleased to have connected with them.
“People like to see kind stories in the media. The kind stories matter. The kindness matters. But people are being forced to ask why we need to be kind. And that is what we need to think about and respond to most of all. Why is it that we need to be kind?”
Erin and her two children, Yasmin and Ali, came to help at Addi Road Food Relief Hub: “It just feels good to give back.”
It’s History Week in New South Wales, and the theme for this year is ‘From the Ground Up’. It’s a theme that means a lot to us at Addi Road, a local heritage site on Gadigal land whose history is entwined with many significant national stories, from the experiences of soldiers in World War One, to the birth of a vibrant multicultural society in the 1970s.
We are honoured to be named BEST COMMUNITY GROUP in City Hub Sydney’s ‘Best of Sydney 2021’.
“It feels good to communicate and work together. To be a part of it all together.”
“We have to be the change we want to see. And give people the hope I’m talking about. It’s about more than the food; it’s about the energy they see in us when we arrive.”
Another end of day, only a trace of last bird call to see us into the evening. This place is a home to a lot of people, and a backstop to many more. Right now, Addi Road is serving as a lynch-pin between the larger food relief organisations and a plethora of civil society groups, charity and community organisations…
The playlist in the hall rocks along to Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Down on the Corner’. Someone must like their old classics. Volunteers packing hamper boxes inside the Addi Road Food Relief Hub pick up on the musical tempo.